Variable fonts: own floating palette for the parameters

[4dimage]

Hi,

support for variable fonts ist great 🙂 Since then I almost always use variable fonts when available for a font (i love Roboto flex).

In practice, however, it is annoying that when writing/editing text, there is no constant indication of how the most important text parameters are set on the text cursor. For me, this is usually weight and width.

I often use combinations of light/bold or different widths in a text block.

To find out which settings are actually currently active on the text cursor or text block, you constantly have to open the variable fonts dropdown panel in the character palette or from the context command line. That's dozens of clicks per hour just to open the dropdown.

It would be a huge time saver if we had a separate floating palette for the variable font parameters that you could always see open, like the character or typography palette. This is not only clearer, but would also speed up the input when fine-tuning the text layout. Much fewer clicks.

[MikeTO]

In the meantime, consider using text styles to define the different instances of your variable fonts because then you can glance at the style name to know which it is.

[4dimage]

Good idea, but tell that to my boss when he asks me for a design for a newspaper ad shortly before the editorial deadline

[fde101]

As I said from the time this was introduced, I still think these should actually be *in* the Typography palette, under a new section header.  There was no need to add a separate popup for these in the first place.